It's quite disturbing this drama romanticise abusive behaviour in relationship. Only in drama this look romantic,…
Movies, dramas, novels, stories, should not be construed as a blueprint for real life behavior. So yes, this micro drama is definitely not for naive under 16 audiences. NC-17 (18+) rating would be appropriate. But, like the fantasy or myth stories of Gods, Fairies and Devils, or plain old fashioned horror tales, cult slasher movies, etc, such items have a function as magnet and outlet for "guilty pleasure" fantasies and warnings for excess which of course should not be enacted for real! For more seasoned audiences, there are over the top moments that become farcical and will satisfy the spicy (not too fluffy romantic) story seekers.
I was amazed, and riveted, it sure looked real - and not one but many ! ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
Like you said, so I can understand unease in interviews if they were not a real couple and that she may have felt "shy" to comment on questions about those, or that his gf might feel flustered to see that ๐
Some comments below mention that the disclosure of his being in a relationship caused trouble to the CP hype of the drama: some "holier than thou" people objected ! --- Well, this called for a musical pause, thinking of those people who want to judge the actors : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk8magGDcKE (Metallica, 1991 : Holier than thou) -I'm into musical "archeology" so have fun with songs like this one or even older Can The Can https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SXWgC0SLCA
aha, perhaps you could add it in the photo section?
OK, if you did not have time, I have added it already, now ๐, but you can use the tutorial I sent to you in spoiler, to post other pictures here or for other dramas.
So, I watched this as a guilty pleasure, wondering how many fight scenes, wounded scenes, kabedon and caveman throwing over shoulder scenes, and assorted kissing would be thrown into the (dark) mix of playing with tropes. I was not bored at all, sometimes even amazed and thrilled! I did not catch all the sentences in dialogues which I think mixed in some Cantonese or very accented speech? The story is a bit sketchy, but evoked the sort of style in the manga that Xu Zheqing was leafing through in one of the concluding episodes. To me, I suspected it was based on such a story. But the drama pages don't mention one (although a comment on Douban darkly hinted to some plagiarism in first episodes, not stating exactly what that claim was based upon) ; Youku has original scripts, so perhaps that was one? Several screenwriters were involved : Shi Bing Xin (็ณๅฐๅฟ), Zhang Zi Wei (ๅผ ็ดซ่), Chen Wen Yong (้ๆฑถ้), Kuang Yu Cheng (ๆท้จๆพ) - I don't know any of those anyway.
Looking at the Baidu page, this was a "2024 micro-short drama starring Ren Yunjie and Gao Rongfang" for Youku (on which I got the alert) . Not much more there.
But there is a https://weibo.com/u/7868318186 link for the micro-drama, where the leads are described as "crazy wolf" and "little steel figure". There's an interesting 5 mins BTS : https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:5067420256370735?from=old_pc_videoshow (no English subtitles). There is a picture of the "Qingxi couple" (้ๅ ฎๅคซๅฆ) -for the CP of XuZhe Qing and Wen Xi, in wedding attire, posted August 14, just a tad too late for Sat, Aug 10, 2024 Qixi festival (the other Chinese Valentines day), and a 7+ mins interview of the pair : https://video.weibo.com/show?fid=1034:5066734923874313 Also a 5 mins interview of "Ling Yuan" (Liu Tian Yang), and various Weibo shorts from the drama.
The https://movie.douban.com/subject/36680538/ page has a number of comments on looks etc, finding the FL's jawline sharp, the ML "ugly" (he does have curiously mismatched eyes, so even with a mask should be recognizable) , the clothes "a bit cheap" (well, this was not high budget, and the product placements, although obvious, don't point to much investment).
Dramawiki is the only page that lists OST ? They got : Theme song: An Embrace in the Dark by Gou Shen Ye Ye (็็ฅ็ท็ท) Insert songs:
A Illusion of Love by Gou Shen Ye Ye (็็ฅ็ท็ท) Burst by Gou Shen Ye Ye (็็ฅ็ท็ท) Bing (็ ) by Gou Shen Ye Ye (็็ฅ็ท็ท)
NOW WHO is that "Grandpa Dog God" ็็ฅ็ท็ท ?? Baidu comes up with ๆฑๆญ๏ผ็พๅบฆ็พ็งๅฐๆชๆถๅฝ่ฏๆก โ็็ฅ็ท็ทโ (Sorry, Baidu Encyclopedia has not yet included the entry "Grandpa Dog God") + You are welcome to create and share this entry information with netizens.... ๐
+++... Some minutes Laaater : continuing my investigation, I think I found some clues that the Grandpa Dog God is an author-composer called Pan Ying ๆฝ้ข who sings online, in folksong style and rap. There are a number of songs to listen to here : https://y.music.163.com/m/artist?id=32436011 (have only checked out the first one, atm).
.... Now I'll resume my watch of "Lost You Found You", which I'd left on hold after starting it, looking for more "drama snacks" like this quick one.
aha, perhaps you could add it in the photo section?
Tutorial ๐ : If you have the picture handy, just copy it as "image" in jpg or png format into a folder on your computer, and then open the Photo section, press on "upload a photo", follow instructions to post it there. It's easy.
If you have difficulty getting a jpg or png format, you can use a screenshot, save it, and next use https://postimages.org/ with it to get a link to post pictures on forums etc. Try it out ?
You don't need to keep the png or jpg pictures on your computer, next. They will stay on MDL without disappearing even if you suppress your postimages work.
You may state where you found the original picture, and copy the link for it in Description box, but look at other pictures in the folder to stay consistent with Title of pictures.
I hope they can overcome the hurdle. Both their presence on screen awoke my attention, somewhat like Dai Gaozheng (with Chen Fantong) did in Maid's Revenge ! They are not totally new, since they already have on-screen experience in 8-10+ dramas before, although I am not sure who was the "Xia Zhi" Gao Rong Fang played in AROTLF (which was not in my top dramas of the year then): was she one of the students who took the fossil, perhaps? I don't mind pairings where one or both are in a relationship or married elsewhere, like Ren Jialun was when he filmed with Bai Lu (despite the reputed "forbidding intimate scenes" his wife imposes in his contracts) It was amusing here in some scenes in first episodes, to see how make-believe intimacy could look like "on remote screen", when in fact the pair were hardly touching each other! (But I was really amazed by the kissing scenes which looked very real) Fans of the CP should be a little more supportive of these interesting young actors who did very well here! ๐
updates about ost:didn't find the exact songs from the show but someone told in the comments that the credit at…
I was investigating from same ็็ฅ็ท็ท clue, mentioned in a comment earlier, wondering if it meant the music was borrowed from other drama, but did not have time or energy to look more in depth. Thanks for your findings. Perhaps you could create an "Embrace in the Dark Night OST" Discussion for it ?
im so sad when im thinking about the real life of Uyghur Muslims who lives in xianging and uromchi.... god save…
You ought to schedule a travel time just to visit and check for yourself... It's perfectly safe and no problem to go visit Urumqi and Kashgar to meet the Uighurs, and also to sample their delicious food specialties, including the seedless grapes grown in Turpan (also worth visiting as both a beautiful oasis and a modern town on the edge of the Takla Makan desert).
The only difficulty is that it is not cheap, not for backpackers if you are not familiar with the languages.
Visa needed is the ordinary tourist one, no special permit is compulsory to visit Xinjiang But know that it is even possible to visit China without needing a visa, for those countries included in the recent experiment of visa-free entry : "Visa-Free Access to China: If you're from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, and Poland, you can visit China visa-free for 15 days until December 31st, 2025. If you're from Singapore, you can relish visa-free access to China for up to 30 days." Long enough to book your tour to the Xinjiang after sampling highlights of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing or wherever your international flight takes you.
Of course, you'll need to do some real research to make the most of your tour (start with the videos of travelers, ground and birds eye footage, read up on travelers experiences ; go back a century or more in documents from various sources if you can for perspective ; check local customs like how to visit a Muslim home in the Xinjiang ; what the people value in culture and handicrafts ; rules for haggling, eating, what is taboo in gestures, things, and speech ; keep a map with the location of nearest high class hotel if you need basic comfort you are used to from home for restrooms : access to the ones in the lobby are often easy to get to ; safety rules -despite China is mostly the safest country to travel to, and it's safe to ask politely for help from strangers, don't let yourself be targeted by shady or overeager people who might scam you -know local prices...) + remember that a traveler is most often viewed as an informal ambassador of his/her home country, so politeness and genuine interest should be showed to strike up talks in a civilized and non imperialistic, non superior-acting, non aggressive way. It does take time to prepare a fruitful trip where you come home with more than just a collection of personal pictures and videos of places that are already on the Net. The disconnected from reality and sensationalist media that you find more easily in the West, spins fantasies about China that are, unfortunately, often toxic disinformation nowadays. Don't blurt out stupidity from those "sources" if you can help it!
Wondered why i had not watched it as it aired, put it on account of Olympics and Vengo Gao watching, but no : it was merely geo-restricted, and so I did not notice it. Not cool for DGZ, who could benefit from wider audiences. Well, here I go for quick binge watch, then...
Checking back to add the standing of The Tale of Rose in the 10 most watched TV shows in China for 9 weeks now. Interestingly the Douban rating rose again, to 7.4 (steadily climbing from the 7.1 opening, when many audiences were still surprised by this not so usual family romance /psychological itinerary of a woman from wild art student to mature woman soon entering middle age.)
I also added the full credits for composers, lyrics writers, arrangement and producers, in addition to the complete OST listing with singers. The original WeTV OST MVs have the picture of singers; to know more about them, just click on their names in the list on the Companion piece, music section. This OST is very good, among the best, perhaps the best, for 2024.
""The Legend of Tianyun Mountain" is a film directed by Chinese director Xie Jin in 1980. It is adapted from Lu Yanzhou's novel "The Mountain is Red with Cuckoos". It is a film that reflects on the "anti-rightist" movement. At that time, it aroused widespread and strong social repercussions. The film won the 1981 Chinese Film "Golden Rooster Award" for Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Award, and the "Popular Film" "Hundred Flowers Award" for Best Feature Film.
Synopsis : In the early 1950s, Song Wei and Feng Qinglan, who had just graduated from school, joined the Tianyun Mountain expedition team. At that time, Luo Qun took over Wu Yao's position and served as the political commissar of the expedition team. The inspection work was lively and lively, and Song Wei and Luo Qun truly fell in love with each other. In 1957, Song Wei was transferred to the Party School to study. In the subsequent anti-rightist movement, Wu Yao, the leader of the movement, first classified Luo Qun as a rightist and sent him back to the countryside to supervise labor. Song Wei was forced to draw a clear line with Luo Qun and marry Wu Yao. One day, Feng Qinglan suddenly came to Luo Qun, willing to be a teacher there, and fell deeply in love with Luo Qun while getting along. Luo Qun was seriously ill, and Feng Jinglan dragged him to his residence with difficulty in the wind and snow. Soon they got married. During the Cultural Revolution, Luo Qun was criticized and Feng Qinglan was tortured to death in order to protect his manuscripts. Wu Yao was later re-employed as deputy secretary of the prefectural committee and director of organization, but he ignored Luo Qun's unjust case, and Song Wei had a sharp conflict with him. Luo Qun's rightist mistakes were finally corrected, but Feng Qinglan passed away due to illness. Both Luo Qun and Song Wei came to Feng's cemetery to mourn silently" (tr from YouTube presentation)
The cc option gives the running commentary of the director to the movie in English version : "... This play is a serious drama,.."
""The Legend of Tianyun Mountain" is a film directed by Chinese director Xie Jin in 1980. It is adapted from Lu Yanzhou's novel "The Mountain is Red with Cuckoos". It is a film that reflects on the "anti-rightist" movement. At that time, it aroused widespread and strong social repercussions. The film won the 1981 Chinese Film "Golden Rooster Award" for Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Award, and the "Popular Film" "Hundred Flowers Award" for Best Feature Film.
Synopsis : In the early 1950s, Song Wei and Feng Qinglan, who had just graduated from school, joined the Tianyun Mountain expedition team. At that time, Luo Qun took over Wu Yao's position and served as the political commissar of the expedition team. The inspection work was lively and lively, and Song Wei and Luo Qun truly fell in love with each other. In 1957, Song Wei was transferred to the Party School to study. In the subsequent anti-rightist movement, Wu Yao, the leader of the movement, first classified Luo Qun as a rightist and sent him back to the countryside to supervise labor. Song Wei was forced to draw a clear line with Luo Qun and marry Wu Yao. One day, Feng Qinglan suddenly came to Luo Qun, willing to be a teacher there, and fell deeply in love with Luo Qun while getting along. Luo Qun was seriously ill, and Feng Jinglan dragged him to his residence with difficulty in the wind and snow. Soon they got married. During the Cultural Revolution, Luo Qun was criticized and Feng Qinglan was tortured to death in order to protect his manuscripts. Wu Yao was later re-employed as deputy secretary of the prefectural committee and director of organization, but he ignored Luo Qun's unjust case, and Song Wei had a sharp conflict with him. Luo Qun's rightist mistakes were finally corrected, but Feng Qinglan passed away due to illness. Both Luo Qun and Song Wei came to Feng's cemetery to mourn silently" (tr from YouTube presentation)
The cc option gives the running commentary of the director to the movie in English version : "... This play is a serious drama,.."
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So yes, this micro drama is definitely not for naive under 16 audiences. NC-17 (18+) rating would be appropriate.
But, like the fantasy or myth stories of Gods, Fairies and Devils, or plain old fashioned horror tales, cult slasher movies, etc, such items have a function as magnet and outlet for "guilty pleasure" fantasies and warnings for excess which of course should not be enacted for real! For more seasoned audiences, there are over the top moments that become farcical and will satisfy the spicy (not too fluffy romantic) story seekers.
so I can understand unease in interviews if they were not a real couple and that she may have felt "shy" to comment on questions about those, or that his gf might feel flustered to see that ๐
Some comments below mention that the disclosure of his being in a relationship caused trouble to the CP hype of the drama: some "holier than thou" people objected !
--- Well, this called for a musical pause, thinking of those people who want to judge the actors : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk8magGDcKE (Metallica, 1991 : Holier than thou) -I'm into musical "archeology" so have fun with songs like this one or even older Can The Can https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SXWgC0SLCA
Looking at the Baidu page, this was a "2024 micro-short drama starring Ren Yunjie and Gao Rongfang" for Youku (on which I got the alert) . Not much more there.
But there is a https://weibo.com/u/7868318186 link for the micro-drama, where the leads are described as "crazy wolf" and "little steel figure". There's an interesting 5 mins BTS : https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:5067420256370735?from=old_pc_videoshow (no English subtitles). There is a picture of the "Qingxi couple" (้ๅ ฎๅคซๅฆ) -for the CP of XuZhe Qing and Wen Xi, in wedding attire, posted August 14, just a tad too late for Sat, Aug 10, 2024 Qixi festival (the other Chinese Valentines day), and a 7+ mins interview of the pair : https://video.weibo.com/show?fid=1034:5066734923874313
Also a 5 mins interview of "Ling Yuan" (Liu Tian Yang), and various Weibo shorts from the drama.
The https://movie.douban.com/subject/36680538/ page has a number of comments on looks etc, finding the FL's jawline sharp, the ML "ugly" (he does have curiously mismatched eyes, so even with a mask should be recognizable) , the clothes "a bit cheap" (well, this was not high budget, and the product placements, although obvious, don't point to much investment).
Dramawiki is the only page that lists OST ? They got :
Theme song: An Embrace in the Dark by Gou Shen Ye Ye (็็ฅ็ท็ท)
Insert songs:
A Illusion of Love by Gou Shen Ye Ye (็็ฅ็ท็ท)
Burst by Gou Shen Ye Ye (็็ฅ็ท็ท)
Bing (็ ) by Gou Shen Ye Ye (็็ฅ็ท็ท)
NOW WHO is that "Grandpa Dog God" ็็ฅ็ท็ท ?? Baidu comes up with ๆฑๆญ๏ผ็พๅบฆ็พ็งๅฐๆชๆถๅฝ่ฏๆก โ็็ฅ็ท็ทโ (Sorry, Baidu Encyclopedia has not yet included the entry "Grandpa Dog God") +
You are welcome to create and share this entry information with netizens.... ๐
+++... Some minutes Laaater : continuing my investigation, I think I found some clues that the Grandpa Dog God is an author-composer called Pan Ying ๆฝ้ข who sings online, in folksong style and rap. There are a number of songs to listen to here : https://y.music.163.com/m/artist?id=32436011 (have only checked out the first one, atm).
.... Now I'll resume my watch of "Lost You Found You", which I'd left on hold after starting it, looking for more "drama snacks" like this quick one.
If you have difficulty getting a jpg or png format, you can use a screenshot, save it, and next use https://postimages.org/ with it to get a link to post pictures on forums etc. Try it out ?
You don't need to keep the png or jpg pictures on your computer, next. They will stay on MDL without disappearing even if you suppress your postimages work.
You may state where you found the original picture, and copy the link for it in Description box, but look at other pictures in the folder to stay consistent with Title of pictures.
They are not totally new, since they already have on-screen experience in 8-10+ dramas before, although I am not sure who was the "Xia Zhi" Gao Rong Fang played in AROTLF (which was not in my top dramas of the year then): was she one of the students who took the fossil, perhaps?
I don't mind pairings where one or both are in a relationship or married elsewhere, like Ren Jialun was when he filmed with Bai Lu (despite the reputed "forbidding intimate scenes" his wife imposes in his contracts)
It was amusing here in some scenes in first episodes, to see how make-believe intimacy could look like "on remote screen", when in fact the pair were hardly touching each other! (But I was really amazed by the kissing scenes which looked very real)
Fans of the CP should be a little more supportive of these interesting young actors who did very well here! ๐
It's rather thrilling tunes.
The only difficulty is that it is not cheap, not for backpackers if you are not familiar with the languages.
Visa needed is the ordinary tourist one, no special permit is compulsory to visit Xinjiang
But know that it is even possible to visit China without needing a visa, for those countries included in the recent experiment of visa-free entry : "Visa-Free Access to China: If you're from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, and Poland, you can visit China visa-free for 15 days until December 31st, 2025. If you're from Singapore, you can relish visa-free access to China for up to 30 days." Long enough to book your tour to the Xinjiang after sampling highlights of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing or wherever your international flight takes you.
Of course, you'll need to do some real research to make the most of your tour (start with the videos of travelers, ground and birds eye footage, read up on travelers experiences ; go back a century or more in documents from various sources if you can for perspective ; check local customs like how to visit a Muslim home in the Xinjiang ; what the people value in culture and handicrafts ; rules for haggling, eating, what is taboo in gestures, things, and speech ; keep a map with the location of nearest high class hotel if you need basic comfort you are used to from home for restrooms : access to the ones in the lobby are often easy to get to ; safety rules -despite China is mostly the safest country to travel to, and it's safe to ask politely for help from strangers, don't let yourself be targeted by shady or overeager people who might scam you -know local prices...) + remember that a traveler is most often viewed as an informal ambassador of his/her home country, so politeness and genuine interest should be showed to strike up talks in a civilized and non imperialistic, non superior-acting, non aggressive way. It does take time to prepare a fruitful trip where you come home with more than just a collection of personal pictures and videos of places that are already on the Net. The disconnected from reality and sensationalist media that you find more easily in the West, spins fantasies about China that are, unfortunately, often toxic disinformation nowadays. Don't blurt out stupidity from those "sources" if you can help it!
Well, I'll unlock it elsewhere, wtf. https://kisskh.co/Drama/Lost-You--Found-You?id=9323
Wondered why i had not watched it as it aired, put it on account of Olympics and Vengo Gao watching, but no : it was merely geo-restricted, and so I did not notice it. Not cool for DGZ, who could benefit from wider audiences. Well, here I go for quick binge watch, then...
Interestingly the Douban rating rose again, to 7.4 (steadily climbing from the 7.1 opening, when many audiences were still surprised by this not so usual family romance /psychological itinerary of a woman from wild art student to mature woman soon entering middle age.)
I also added the full credits for composers, lyrics writers, arrangement and producers, in addition to the complete OST listing with singers. The original WeTV OST MVs have the picture of singers; to know more about them, just click on their names in the list on the Companion piece, music section.
This OST is very good, among the best, perhaps the best, for 2024.
https://kisskh.at/discussions/the-story-of-rose/126207-the-story-of-the-rose-miscellaneous-details
Very lovely indeed!
""The Legend of Tianyun Mountain" is a film directed by Chinese director Xie Jin in 1980. It is adapted from Lu Yanzhou's novel "The Mountain is Red with Cuckoos". It is a film that reflects on the "anti-rightist" movement. At that time, it aroused widespread and strong social repercussions. The film won the 1981 Chinese Film "Golden Rooster Award" for Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Award, and the "Popular Film" "Hundred Flowers Award" for Best Feature Film.
Synopsis : In the early 1950s, Song Wei and Feng Qinglan, who had just graduated from school, joined the Tianyun Mountain expedition team. At that time, Luo Qun took over Wu Yao's position and served as the political commissar of the expedition team. The inspection work was lively and lively, and Song Wei and Luo Qun truly fell in love with each other. In 1957, Song Wei was transferred to the Party School to study. In the subsequent anti-rightist movement, Wu Yao, the leader of the movement, first classified Luo Qun as a rightist and sent him back to the countryside to supervise labor. Song Wei was forced to draw a clear line with Luo Qun and marry Wu Yao. One day, Feng Qinglan suddenly came to Luo Qun, willing to be a teacher there, and fell deeply in love with Luo Qun while getting along. Luo Qun was seriously ill, and Feng Jinglan dragged him to his residence with difficulty in the wind and snow. Soon they got married. During the Cultural Revolution, Luo Qun was criticized and Feng Qinglan was tortured to death in order to protect his manuscripts. Wu Yao was later re-employed as deputy secretary of the prefectural committee and director of organization, but he ignored Luo Qun's unjust case, and Song Wei had a sharp conflict with him. Luo Qun's rightist mistakes were finally corrected, but Feng Qinglan passed away due to illness. Both Luo Qun and Song Wei came to Feng's cemetery to mourn silently" (tr from YouTube presentation)
The cc option gives the running commentary of the director to the movie in English version : "... This play is a serious drama,.."
""The Legend of Tianyun Mountain" is a film directed by Chinese director Xie Jin in 1980. It is adapted from Lu Yanzhou's novel "The Mountain is Red with Cuckoos". It is a film that reflects on the "anti-rightist" movement. At that time, it aroused widespread and strong social repercussions. The film won the 1981 Chinese Film "Golden Rooster Award" for Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Award, and the "Popular Film" "Hundred Flowers Award" for Best Feature Film.
Synopsis : In the early 1950s, Song Wei and Feng Qinglan, who had just graduated from school, joined the Tianyun Mountain expedition team. At that time, Luo Qun took over Wu Yao's position and served as the political commissar of the expedition team. The inspection work was lively and lively, and Song Wei and Luo Qun truly fell in love with each other. In 1957, Song Wei was transferred to the Party School to study. In the subsequent anti-rightist movement, Wu Yao, the leader of the movement, first classified Luo Qun as a rightist and sent him back to the countryside to supervise labor. Song Wei was forced to draw a clear line with Luo Qun and marry Wu Yao. One day, Feng Qinglan suddenly came to Luo Qun, willing to be a teacher there, and fell deeply in love with Luo Qun while getting along. Luo Qun was seriously ill, and Feng Jinglan dragged him to his residence with difficulty in the wind and snow. Soon they got married. During the Cultural Revolution, Luo Qun was criticized and Feng Qinglan was tortured to death in order to protect his manuscripts. Wu Yao was later re-employed as deputy secretary of the prefectural committee and director of organization, but he ignored Luo Qun's unjust case, and Song Wei had a sharp conflict with him. Luo Qun's rightist mistakes were finally corrected, but Feng Qinglan passed away due to illness. Both Luo Qun and Song Wei came to Feng's cemetery to mourn silently" (tr from YouTube presentation)
The cc option gives the running commentary of the director to the movie in English version : "... This play is a serious drama,.."